Open-heart surgery in Jehovah's witness patients

Vascular

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-314

  Chikada, M ^a   Furuse, A ^a   Kotsuka, Y ^a   Yagyu, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

aprotinin; autologous blood transfusion; erythropoietin; Jehovah's Witnesses; open heart surgery

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHRISTIANITY; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0029883072     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096721099600400308     Document Type: Article

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